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I have a 266 lappy i want to install linux on... can i use ubuntu?

Sure, run Ubuntu.

The amount of RAM you have matters more then the CPU in this case. If you have just 32megs or less your going to have a harder time, but anything over 64megs and your going to be sitting pretty for a machine of this sort.

Also check out Vector Linux for a distro specificly made for older machines.
 
thanks drag. i am using a dual boot to ubuntu now on my desktop but its a monster of a box. i didnt know how well it would run on a slower machine. i guess we will see.

btw, if i was to use knoppix or a cd based distro, would i be able to pull the cd out and put in another one to use apps i burned? i only have 1 rom drive for it. like ubuntu, i usually use apt-get and use the synaptic package manager to get whatever i want. i dont know if knoppix has this so i dont know if i will have to get a bunch of apps then burn them then install them from cd. with only having a 4 gig drive, i am thinking that the less of an os i install on the hard drive the more room i will have on it.

what do ya think?
 
Well a cdrom based system is going to be slower and more memory intensive then a harddisked based on.

Plus since the effective disk drive IS the cdrom, you couldn't remove that while it was running anymore then you could if you wanted to yank a harddrive.

The reason you can do with with linux-based floppies is because they do a ramdisk and load the entire floppy into RAM. Theoreticly you could do that with a cdrom, but it's would take a couple gigs to hold all the files uncompressed. 🙂

Knoppix and Ubuntu are both Debian based operating systems so that you can use apt-get with Knoppix and even upgrade it against Debian unstable if you want. (although there are going to be a few issues if you do that, nothing that can't be worked around though).

but Knoppix maintains it's own repositories just like Ubuntu does. So if you install Knoppix on the harddrive you can use apt-get and synaptic and all that stuff if you want.

But on the cdrom it's going to be more of a dog then Ubuntu is going to be since the cdrom is much much slower then the harddrive, plus the cdrom is also compressed so it's going to use CPU time to uncompress files when you want to use applications and such.
 
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